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July 06, 2009

Professor Pepper Class of 2009 Academy of Mechanical Engineers

UNLV's Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering is pleased to announce that Darrell Pepper, Ph.D. will be inducted into the Academy of Mechanical Engineers in October 2009.

The induction ceremony will take place at Missouri Science and Technology.

Dr. Pepper is presently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Nevada Center for Advanced Computational Methods at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He previously served as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and was Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1996-2002.

In 2004, he was appointed an ASME Congressional Fellow and worked as a senior legislative staff member for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein in Washington, DC. He obtained his B.S.M.E. (1968), M.S.A.E. (1970), and Ph.D. (1973) degrees from the University of Missouri-Rolla. Following graduation, he worked for Du Pont at the Savannah River Laboratory in Aiken, SC, where he held various technical and managerial positions including Director of University and Professional Relations. He subsequently became Chief Scientist of The Marquardt Company, an aerospace propulsion company located in Van Nuys, CA, where he worked on the National Aerospace Plane Program.

Dr. Pepper co-founded and was CEO of Advanced Projects Research, Inc., an R&D company involved with development and application of computational methods in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and environmental transport. 

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Pepper served as Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer from 1990-1997, and is a member of the editorial board of Numerical Heat Transfer and Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences. He is an Editor of the Journal of Thermodynamics, an Editor of Thermopedia, Associate Editor Computational Thermal Sciences, and recently appointed Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

He received the 1996 Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award from UNLV for his research activities, and the 1996 Distinguished Researcher Award from the College of Engineering.

Dr. Pepper was appointed a member of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission in 2008. He received the Eric Reissner medal in 2008 for his work in computational heat transfer and numerical modeling.

Congratulations Dr. Pepper.

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